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Peepshow

Peepshow was the most recent project of dog & pony dc that Rachel Grossman developed. Rachel conceived Peepshow in partnership with Tosin Olufolabi and Ivania Stack. She was “lead” director of Peepshow, with heavy assistance from Tosin, Jordana Fraider, and Lorraine Ressegger-Slone (also the combat and dance choreographer). Rachel facilitated the Peepshow devising process with fourteen non-male-identified collaborating artists. Rachel worked with lighting and scenic designer Annie Weigand and the two performers who were Deaf, Amelia Hensley and Sandra Mae Frank, to make the entire performance accessible to Deaf/HoH audience as hearing audience.

PRESS & PHOTOS

Tucked away in Woolly Mammoth’s black box — a hidden corner of the garden, if you will — is dog & pony dc’s Peepshow, which bills itself as the only festival production entirely conceived, written and performed by women. It is also likely the only one featuring a surreal birth scene set to the Arabian Dance from The Nutcracker, or wooden cut-outs comparing the objectification of the Statue of Liberty to that of Betty Boop, or a slate of mock-professional wrestling matches featuring such fighters as “The Housewife” and “Riot Grrrl.”

…there is an undercurrent of revolutionary fervor suffusing the evening. Are women supposed to confine themselves to distinct rules of comportment when expressing their disgust and pent-up frustrations? No freakin’ way, says “Peepshow.”

As a person who generally does not like the fourth wall crashing down around me, I enjoyed every aspect of the audience interaction…..This show is such an important piece in today’s political climate and is a complete evening of thought-provoking entertainment.

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PRODUCTION DETAILS

Show Description:“Peepshow takes-back objectification and sexism, and kicks the patriarchy where it counts. Over Peepshow’s five spectacles, performers will review the four waves of feminism in a wrestling ring, explore the complexities of the male gaze through Broadway show tunes, and expose the modern woman’s complicity in her own oppression through a synchronized-swimming-and Kpop-inspired-ballet. There isn’t another offering as part of Washington, DC’s second Women’s Voices Theatre Festival with a multi-sensory ode to the vagina, which means Peepshowis not to be missed. Recommended for 18yo+. 100% accessible accessible to and enjoyable by hearing and Deaf audience members. Peepshow is an intimate experience, capped at 30 persons per showing.”